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Digital Chocolate, Inc. is a video game developer and publisher headquartered in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the entrepreneur and founder of the video game publishing giant Electronic Arts and founder of The 3DO Company. The company focuses on developing games for mobile phones, iOS, and Microsoft Windows, and makes some non-entertainment titles. Its marketing motto is ''Seize the minute''. ==History== Digital Chocolate was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins. On August 15, 2011, Digital Chocolate agreed to acquire Sandlot Games, a leading casual game developer and publisher.〔(Digital Chocolate acquires Sandlot Games )〕 Digital Chocolate has operations in San Mateo, Seattle, Barcelona, St. Petersburg, Bangalore, and Mexicali. In May 2012, Trip Hawkins stepped down as CEO to move to a "consulting and advisory relationship" with the company. The company also announced plans to lay off 180 employees. ''Galaxy Life'' is their most successful title on Facebook to date, ranking at 284th bucket of MAU (Monthly Active Users) as of September 13, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AppData - App Metrics and Research )〕 In 2013 Digital Chocolate's Barcelona studio was sold to Ubisoft with the ''Galaxy Life'' IP and the Helsinki studio was closed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digital Chocolate, Which Nurtured Some Of Gaming’s Best Talent, Sells Its Barcelona Studio To Ubisoft )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=()() Galaxy Life joins the Ubisoft family! - Forums )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digital Chocolate to Close Helsinki Office )〕 In April 2014, Digital Chocolate's four remaining Facebook games—''Army Attack'', ''Crazy Penguin Wars'', ''Millionaire City'', and ''Zombie Lane''—were licensed to RockYou, along with the hiring of their developers to continue work on the games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gamasutra - RockYou's new strategy: Rescue games that other publishers don't want )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Players of Army Attack, Crazy Penguin Wars, Millionaire City, and Zombie Lane: Welcome to RockYou’s Growing Community of Worldwide Gamers! )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RockYou buys three Playdom games from Disney to keep them running )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Digital Chocolate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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